TTKK

{{Short description|Television station in Micronesia}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox television station

| callsign = TTKK

| analog = 7 (VHF)

| airdate = {{Start date and age|1980}}

| location = Weno, Chuuk

| country = Federated States of Micronesia

| erp = 0.1 kW

| former_callsigns = WTKK-TV

}}

TTKK (channel 7) is a television station in Weno (formerly Moen), Chuuk State. The station is one of the two commercial operations in the Federated States of Micronesia.{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lvkKAQAAMAAJ |access-date=July 5, 2024 |publisher=Academic |date=2003 |isbn=978-0-12-387673-7 }}

It started operations in 1980 as "WTKK-TV" (no relation to the station in Washington, D.C., that held the same calls at the time), becoming the third television station in the Federated States of Micronesia; however, the station entered bankruptcy about a year and a half after signing on.{{harvnb|Metzgar, 1987}} Moreover, the station faced technical difficulties on a regular basis. Programming was provided by the Pacific Taping Company, which also taped content for WAAB-TV in Yap to air.{{harvnb|Tolstedt, June 1986}} Upon the shutdown of the initial service, VCRs surpassed conventional television in Chuuk.{{harvnb|Metzgar, 1986}}

There was another service operating for an eighteen-month period from late 1975 to early 1977 that closed due to a reported lack of income.{{cite web |url=http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/programme_doc_bentley_report.pdf |title=Pacific Islands Television Survey Report 2002 |publisher=UNESCO |accessdate=6 May 2020 |archive-date=4 January 2016 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20160104071623/http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/8179/10469365274BENTLEY_TV_Survey_Report__-_210203.DOC/BENTLEY%2BTV%2BSurvey%2BReport%2B%2B-%2B210203.DOC |url-status=dead }}

It is unknown exactly when the station resumed its operations; as early as 1990, the station was already listed in guide books under the current TTKK call sign.{{cite book |title=The Far East and Australasia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axdXAAAAMAAJ |access-date=July 5, 2024 |publisher=Europa Publications Limited |date=1990 |isbn=978-0-946653-53-9 }} Other sources say that Truk lacked television by 1993, but instead resorted on videotaped American programming.